On 07/26/2013 09:06 PM, Jeff King wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 07:33:01PM +0200, Daniele Segato wrote:
stress the difference between the two with suggestion on when the user
should use one in place of the other.
Signed-off-by: Daniele Segato <daniele.seg...@gmail.com>
The intent of your patch seems reasonable to me. There are a few minor
language and typographical mistakes, and the patch itself is
whitespace-damaged.
Hi Jeff,
thanks for the feedback, very appreciated.
But I don't understand what's wrong with the whitespaces.
Can you explain to me what's wrong and how I can avoid the issue?
I use thunderbird in text mode to send emails, should I use something
else? what?
I also do not know that it is accurate to say "most git commands ignore
lightweight tags". It is really only "naming" ones like "git describe".
Here is a re-send of your patch with the fixups I would recommend.
Thanks, it's obviously better.
I'll send this new version as soon as you or someone else explain me how
to fix the whitespace damage.
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From: Daniele Segato <daniele.seg...@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] docs/git-tag: explain lightweight versus annotated tags
Stress the difference between the two with a suggestion on
when the user should use one in place of the other.
Signed-off-by: Daniele Segato <daniele.seg...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <p...@peff.net>
---
Documentation/git-tag.txt | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
index 22894cb..c418c44 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
@@ -42,6 +42,17 @@ is used to specify custom GnuPG binary.
GnuPG key for signing. The configuration variable `gpg.program`
is used to specify custom GnuPG binary.
+Tag objects (created with `-a`, `s`, or `-u`) are called "annotated"
+tags; they contain a creation date, the tagger name and e-mail, a
+tagging message, and an optional GnuPG signature. Whereas a
+"lightweight" tag is simply a name for an object (usually a commit
+object).
+
+Annotated tags are meant for release while lightweight tags are meant
+for private or temporary object labels. For this reason, some git
+commands for naming objects (like `git describe`) will ignore
+lightweight tags by default.
+
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